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- 2. Knowledge society agenda Pervasiveness of technology “Education for All” goals Future national strategic objectives Broad aims of the various national and international initiatives
- 4. What is knowledge?... According to dictionary.com knowledge is the acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from a study or investigation. Familiarity or conversance as with a particular subject or branch of learning. OR Acquaintance or familiarity gained by insight, experience or report. In simple terms: Knowledge is the reconstruction of information
- 5. What is Information??? According to Wikipedia, information is a sequence of symbols that can be interpreted as a message. Information: evidences, ideas, or thoughts expressed through sound, imagery and words (www.inrp.fr) NOW LET US LOOK AT THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY AGENDA
- 6. A Knowledge Society… A knowledge society is a society that is informed about the world around itself, able to comprehend the different contexts of that environment and be able to express what it experiences in a meaningful and a philosophical way. A knowledge society is a society wherein life long learning is encouraged.
- 7. WHAT IS LEARNING? Essentially, learning is a process of acquiring knowledge by a means of observing or experiencing… WHY LIFELONG LEARNING IN LIFE, WE NEVER STOP LEARNING. LEARNING DOES NOT ONLY TAKE PLACE IN THE CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT. WE TALK TO PEOPLE EVERYDAY AND WE LEARN FROM THOSE DAY-TO-DAY CONVERSATIONS
- 9. ICT… Information communication technology is an imperative that has been researched for years in aiming to improve the way teachers teach and the way pupils learn. It is essentially about the accessing and acquiring knowledge via the use of technology. Networks: Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, etc.. Networks for educational purposes?
- 10. ICT (contd.)
- 11. Teachers in the knowledge society: Teachers should be able to deal with new knowledge. Teachers should have new ways of accessing knowledge: anything either than the textbook method, etc.. Teachers need to have knowledge of the specific subject they are teaching. They need to be reflective and flexible. They need to understand the context in which they are teaching and the context of the learners’ environments.
- 12. Learners in the knowledge society: They need to be self-regulated learners. They need to be deep learners. They need to understand that without purpose, abuse is inevitable. Education should emancipate them. Learners need not do philosophy but they need to be philosophical.
- 14. What do we mean by PERVASIVENESS? Pervasive essentially means spread throughout… Thus with the pervasiveness of technology, we are talking about its worldwide use. Where it all began… WHO, HOW, and WHY???
- 15. o WHO? People all over the world use technology, from young children to the elderly. o HOW? People use technology in different ways. o WHY? People use technology for multiple reasons. The most common is: COMMUNICATION!!!
- 16. “EDUCATION FOR ALL” GOALS
- 17. o Expand early childhood care and education o Provide free and compulsory primary education to all. o Promote learning and life skills for young people and adults o Increase adult literacy by 50 percent o Achieve gender parity by 2005 and o gender equality by 2015
- 18. o Improve the quality of Education REFERENCE: Education International’s Response to The Global Monitoring Report 2008.
- 19. HOW DO WE MAKE “EDUCATION FOR ALL” A REALITY IN SOUTH AFRICA???
- 20. Most of the goals of the Education Internationals have been met but there are still a few that need great attention: o FINANCES o GENDER EQUALITY o QUALITY EDUCATION o QUALITY TECHERS
- 21. QUALITY EDUCATION… EMANCIPATORY EDUCATION. EDUCATION THAT BRINGS ABOUT SOCIAL COHESION. EDUCATION THAT PREPARES LEARNERS TO BE ACTIVE INDIVIDUALS IN THEIR SOCIETIES. AN EDUCATION WITH POSSIBILITIES…
- 23. QUALITY EDUCATORS (contd). 1. Analyzing the learning needs and goals. 2. Making ICT transformative. 3. Create conducive learning environments that are conducive. 4. Teachers should continuously reflect on their professional development and strive to better educators. 5. Assessment and communication about student achievement. 6. Teachers must understand the subject matter of the subject that they are teaching
- 25. Have a curriculum that serves the needs of the South African Society. Basic education must be accessible to all children of South Africa. Build schools that are fully resourced. Improve the conditions of schools in rural areas and other parts of the country. Get affected communities and the broader society involved in this. Persevering African languages; mother-tongue
- 26. FUTURE NATIONAL STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES
- 27. WHAT TO DO? TO MAKE BETTER… Create a society that is able to solve problems, and develop competitively. Eliminate poverty and reduce inequality. Create a higher education system that has excellency in the scientific and the technological perspectives of education. Due to challenges such as transformation, poverty, crime, violence, etc. , in South Africa, we need to have a humanistic perspective. Realizing the importance our tertiary education institutions and the roles they play: role of educating and training, producers of knowledge and social mobility
- 28. THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITIES… Educate and train people with high-level skills for employment in the public and private sector. Universities are dominant producers of knowledge, they critique existing information and come up with more innovative thinking regarding this information. Universities open doors for social mobility , strengthen equity, justice and democracy
- 30. • Improving learning outcomes. • Improved performance and better learning outcomes in key subjects like mathematics, science and technology. • Improve the quality of learning across all grades. • Teachers need to be in class, and on time. They must make use of all the available resources in order to assist them in teaching. • The material has to both teacher- and learner- centered. • Training of Teachers, principals and administrators. • Organizational renewal
- 33. 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity: a) Promote and support creative and innovative thinking. b) Promote student reflection. c) Engage students in exploring real-world issues, and solving genuine problems with the use of digital tools and resources.
- 34. 2. Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity. • Develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress. • Customize and personalize learning activities to address students’ diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources
- 35. Contd. Provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching
- 36. 3. Model Digital Age Work and Learning Demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations Collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation Communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of digital age media and formats The above four slides are a courtesy of iste.nets.t; Advancing digital age teaching.
- 37. Broad aims of the various national and international initiatives Free basic education for all by the year 2030 In the year 2030, ICT will be a prerequisit in the classroom at all times In South Africa, the Department of Education is aiming to have accessible and free basic education for all by 2015. Improve numeracy and literacy skills from the foundation phase
- 38. REFERENCES Conley, L. (2010). Becoming a Teacher. Philippa van Aardt: Orchard Publishers. Grobler, R. C. (2011). Sociology of Education. Reading Package: Faculty of Education. Auckland Park Kingsway Campus. Guidelines for Teacher Training and Professional Development in ict 2007 ICT-enhanced Teacher Standards for Africa(ICTeTSA)
- 39. REFERENCES (contd.) Magano, M.M. Mostert, P van der Westeheizen G. 20120. Learning Conversation: Johannesburg, Heinemann Strategic Plan 2011-2014 THE STELLENBOSCH DECLARATION ICT IN EDUCATION: MAKE IT WORK(IFIP, Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 2005)
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- Technology is found everywhere, from our mere households to the offices in the JSE. It has advanced a lot over the years and what better way to take advantage of its evolution than in a classroom. It will soon be the new innovation in teaching and learning. Yes, there are already forms of technology being used at schools such as computers but are we aware of the greater benefits of such devices in helping teachers and pupils. Today we will try to discover this and see the aims that the Department of Education has to implement this in South Africa.
- The main points that are going to be discussed in this presentation and we will also look at the training of teachers in order to make these new imperatives to be implemented effectively
- Knowledge is a familiarity with something or someone, which can include facts, information or skills acquired through experience or education. Knowledge can be both implicit(practical skill or experience) or explicit(theoretical understanding of a subject). Information
- Information is a gathering of all that we experience and thus express in words, sounds and imagery. The world is full of information and there is always something to share whether it is academic or just a general topic. When we have conversations it is there where we share information and essentially transmit and interpret knowledgem
- Critical activity(philosophy) What do I mean by life long learning A philosophical learners is a learner that can criticize and be able to come up with innovative information in their criticism and also be able to argue their point confidently and academically. Philosophy is very important because it teaches us to be reflective and to be good analyzers of situations. Being a lifelong learners means that you never stop learning. In life, learning does not occur only in the classroom.
- LEARNING CONVERSATIONS WHAT IS LEARNING LEARNING NEVER STOPS
- What is ICT about
- Speak of the networks and how education can have its own forms of networks.
- In implementing ICT, there are a number of stages that a teacher has to go through. All student and practicing teachers should have basic computer skills(entry level) way before they even graduate. The Teacher Development Framework states that all students whom are freshly into the teaching profession should have the basic knowledge and skills of computer use and application software. Furthermore, they should be able to integrate those ICT skills into teaching and learning. “Teachers are to be in class, on time, teaching and making use of textbooks” says the minister of education in the Strategic Plan 2011-2014. A good imperative to teaching but teachers need not solemnly depend on textbooks because most of the time most teachers end up becoming more like transmitters of knowledge than curriculum interpreters. Teachers should not just take things directly from the textbook and pass it to the learners. Teachers should be able to interpret the material in the textbook from their perspective and also allow learners to then develop their own perspectives of what is being taught.
- Teachers need to be innovative beings so that they can be able to encourage their learners to do the same. A teacher in the knowledge society must create innovative ways of accessing information. Textbooks are the general resources supplied to schools by the Education Department but as we all know children are very hyped up into the latest technology and their fuss about smart phones. In these imperatives, we need to find a way of incorporating their latest obsessions into learning. We need to begin to teach the way they learn
- A self-regulated learner is a learner who is in charge of his or her own learning. A learner who is independent in terms of their learning. Self-regulated learners are interactive in the classroom and always want to engage in what is being taught.A deep learner is a learner that seek not just to know but also to understand. Deep learners always go the extra mile. They do not just depend on the teacher’s perspective but from the teacher’s perspective and of the material that is taught in class they are able to come up with their own perspectives. Learners need to remember why they are in school, because without purpose it will be very easy for them to fall into they trap of taking the easy way out and end up not succeeding in life. Emancipatory education is education that frees. It does not isolate. Philosophical learners are learners that are able to argues for or against an idea with accurate reasoning or rather confident reasoning
- The history of technology is a very long one. Since the first light bulb, who would have known that technology would evolve this much… technology in general has evolved a great deal in the sense that it is becoming an agent of change in the education system. This evolution is melting in the mouths of academics in the Department of Education. Continuous research by experts is taking education in South Africa to a hopeful future.
- When we speak of the pervasiveness of technology we are talking about its worldwide use and how it all started. WHO uses it, HOW they use it and WHY do they use it? These are questions we have to ask ourselves in order to know why they is such a loud cry for the implementation of technology in teaching and learning. How will it change the current education system in the world at large and particularly in South Africa… What is it going to do differently for South Africa in the hope to improve our education system
- From young children to the elderly… EVERYBODY uses technology. People make use of it in different ways and from different mediums. People use technology for many reasons. COMMUNICATION. Essentially, communication is a big part of our lives as human beings. We spend most our lives sharing information through a means of communication and we use different mediums of communication to share this information.
- Education For All is a global initiative that was launched launched 20 years ago, at the World Conference on Education for All in Jomtien, Thailand in 1990. Led by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). 155 countries and 150 representatives from different organisations agreed to universalize education and to eradicate illiteracy. The essential aims of this imperative is to make a primary education free and accessible to all the people of the world, eradicate illiteracy and help societies build themselves through education. South Africa is also part of this initiative and we have seen some positives but we still have a long way to go…
- These are the six goals that were decided upon in Thailand in the year 1990 by Education International. These goals were revisited again in the year 2000 and made millennium goals that would need to be achieved by the year 2015
- The goals of Educational International
- Money is still a big issue in making all of these goals possible by 2015. Gender equality has still not yet been eradicated, it is a world wide view that men are more superior than woman and in South Africa this status quo is highly practiced. We need to address this issues in education. As the Depart of Education’s Manifesto aims to teach the constitution through the curriculum at schools. In other words, we should use education as a tool to hinder gender parity. Children should learn from a young age that gone are the days of superior and inferior. I appreciate that we may never be an entirely equal society but if we have psychologist who believe in the notion that reality is something we as people construct everyday through our daily experiences, then we can possibly try to create that reality of an equal society.
- Emancipatory education is education that frees. Emancipatory education is that of a democratic society. In emancipatory education, we are able to bring about individuals that will contribute positively in society and in their own lives. Education should bring about social cohesion. Education should not divide a nation but rather bring it together so that we all share the same values and belief systems that will help us grow as a society An education with possibilities is one that prepares the learner to face any aspect of life. It helps learners be able to del with real life situations.
- To make education for all a reality in South Africa, we are going to have to consider a lot of factors. Such as curriculum, accessibility, ect. When we engage in curriculum change, we need to adopt a curriculum that will serve the needs of a South African society and not just those of globalization. We need to ensure that basic education is free for all and easily accessible to all those who need it. In the rural areas and I am sure many other parts of the country, schools are lacking resources that are going to make the curriculum more conducive. Principals, management and administrators at school need to adopt the shoe-string methods of teaching wherein they use other innovative ways to still make sure that the complete curriculum is taught especially in subjects like life sciences and physical sciences. Mother-tongue teaching is an issue that needs to be looked at even further. We need to acknowledge that not every child in South Africa speaks English from home, Most of the children in South Africa have African languages as their home language. We need to start recognizing language as a tool of sharing knowledge and a tool to bring about transformation